Thread: Asking for a HUGE christmas favour

This is another method you might consider if you have a router.
http://www.thewoodwhisperer.com/vide...with-a-router/

Doing it with an electric handplaner is possible. Just attack it like any other planing job. Work on the cup up side first taking off the high spots, checking with winding sticks as you go. There is probably a Paul Sellars video that would help in his workbench build series.

Another option is to find a cabinet maker with a wide belt sander or a stroke sander. If it is badly cupped it will have to be worked through a couple of grades of grit if you can't pre flatten it by hand. I know there is a factory down here in Burleigh who has a suitable machine for wide tabletops but I don't know if he would be open this week.

Thanks guys! I'll be giving the electric planer a go this morning i think, wish me luck

Here's the link to the vid where Sellars flattens his bench top. Hogging off with an electric planer is possible instead of using just a handplane, but it will eventually need to be finished with a handplane.